Los cíngaros de Hungría y sus músicas (con CD)

In June 1964, Pink Floyd was born, completely changing the history of music. Time has made Pink Floyd a musical and cultural icon. This book looks at the life of one of the bands that sold the most records of all time, shedding light on its history, the soundtrack of several generations. Un 5 de junio de 1964 Syd Barrett pensó en unir los nombres de dos viejos músicos de blues para rebautizar a una banda en la que el núcleo duro estaba integrado por Roger Waters, Nick Mason y Rick Wright, junto al propio Syd, por supuesto. Había nacido Pink Floyd. Había nacido el mito. Con ellos cambió...

Las historias de 45 canciones que revolucionaron la música popular del siglo xx. Detrás de las grandes canciones hay historias fascinantes. A partir de la columna que publica en el Wall Street Journal, el crítico e historiador Marc Myers ilumina cinco décadas de música popular explicando cómo nacieron y cómo impactaron en los oídos 45 temas que han dejado una huella indeleble en la memoria de nuestro tiempo. Los protagonistas de esos impactos tejen el relato contándole al lector los secretos y las peripecias de sus aventuras creativas. Entre las canciones cuyos orígenes se narran en ...

"Brief study describes traditional instruments of indigenous and creole derivation; includes drawings, pictures, and photographs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...